CHUD: 2011 OSCARS THREAD - Best Actor

While I'd love Bridges to go two for two, it sounds like this is Firths to lose. I'll know more once I've seen The Kings Speech this weekend

As I said in The King's Speech thread, I'll start a riot if Firth gets shafted.

Firth.

Firth is going to win this, no doubt, but I feel that this isn't the performance he should get it for. It feels like the Academy is doing the "You should have won last year, so here you go" shuffle on this one because Firth deserved it last year. I know I'll be called a a Philistine on this, but I felt that Hooper pushed Firth to a performance where it seemed that he was aping Sean Penn in I Am Sam in that he ended up overplaying the affliction to make it more front and center than his character. I simply felt that it got pushed into the gimmicky realm, but then again I disliked the King's Speech in general (aside from Geoffrey Rush, who is in great form).

Firth gives the best performance out of the five nominees, regardless of whether he did or didn't win last year. And he's not exaggerating the affliction at all.

man, I just... do not LIKE Firth. The guy's just a wet blanket to me... am I the only one not automatically bored to sleep by his sexless wet blanket act in every movie, including A Single Man? I don't hate the guy, and sometimes he pops up in interesting movies, but he, nor any of the leading men this year, had a moment as fascinatingly two-faced as Eisenberg's delivery in that "do I deserve your attention?" scene.

No way Firth loses. He deserves it. Congrats to him.